Added information on Crunchyroll announcement of simulcast of Medaka Box Abnormal.
Added information on Hulu simulcast of Magi.
Added premiere date and simulcast day for K at Hulu, Viz, and Anime on Demand.
Added information on Anime on Demand announcement and premiere of simulcast of To Love Ru Darkness.

leokiko123wrote: Furthermore, there are interviews on which they mention how they want to "show off the Japanese animation industry's ability to also create major scifi works". Even more, it's noitaminA. I have high hopes that CR will get it.

Doesn't that look like Fuji Creative is the international distributor? After all, it has a "enquire" tab at that site, and its a Fuji Creative site.

If that's a licensor offer, "Worldwide outside Japan" would not be distribution they have lined up, it would be the rights they have available to offer. While its great that the production committee has not sliced up the rights between different international licensors, but the rights could still get sliced and diced based on the rights that bidders are interested in picking up.

theskyflamewrote: 2 More boxes added. Im guessing the last three are to love ru darkness,little busters and psycho pass.

I'm guessing (1) that's not the last three, (2) To Love Ru Darkness is a TAN exclusive, and (3) Sure, Little Busters and Psycho Pass are possibilities. And so are probably five more that are completely off most people's radars.

llamabenwrote:
OK then. Hopefully this means TAN will never have another true simulcast again.

Consider that when it called it to their attention in the forum, the administrator that had posted the announcement replied stating, "...we have had our release dates and hours approved by the licensors".

While the use of "licensors" makes it a bit ambiguous, if one of those was Sentai that could deal it a blow, which would not be good for Crunchyroll.

If the time and date was approved by someone in Japan (who likely was off their game), then both could be in the clear (at least technically), although we could expect the episode to be temporarily pulled (at least if it is noticed before the first broadcast) and the simulcast time changed.

That said, it was called to TAN's attention that the simulcast appeared to be well before the Japan premiere and they proceeded without any further investigation, so the persons in power back in Japan might not look to kindly on that.

It is currently 1:21 PM on Friday in Japan, so I wonder if rips from this will filter out and be noticed before the end of the Japanese work day.

Kind of disappointed with how Sentai went about things this time around. It was like them pretty much saying " TAN, yeah you can get these anime exclusively for you, and you share the others with CR. BUT CR, you only get these and have to share them."

Unless the airing schedule in Japan changed recently, we have a new first: The first time a company streamed a simulcast before it was broadcast in Japan.

Not exactly. I can recall it happening 4+ times this year alone, though obviously not with a first episode. I don't know whether the publishers found out about these or not, but at the very least it didn't make it to any English news sites (which is why I'm replying here rather than at ANN).

To Love Ru Darkness episode 1 listed as "coming soon" and on the schedule for 10/5 ;)

I note the time is exactly the same as yesterday (9:00 PM EDT / 6:00 PM PDT), which is what I expected it should be.

I wonder if the admin that basically blew me off by saying the time had been approved got called on the carpet this morning for at least not double-checking.

We are late into the night on a Friday in Japan, so I am wondering if we'll really see the fallout of this until late Sunday (i.e., Monday morning in Japan).

It would be interesting to know how many hours it was up before it was pulled. As expected, the rip is apparently out there, meaning the damage is done. I checked a fansub site and found a listing for the first episode (and the OVA, so they don't have it confused), with multiple sources listed.